swindle

Noun
  1. The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme (synset 100781784)
    "that book is a fraud"
    is a type of: fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
    subtypes:
    • cozenage, scam - a fraudulent business scheme
    • bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
    • gip, gyp - (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating
    • pyramiding - a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
    • holdout - the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
    • swiz - British slang for a swindle
    • shell game, thimblerig - a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
    same as: cheat, rig
Verb
  1. Deprive of by deceit (synset 202578034)
    "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"
    is a type of: cheat, chisel, rip off - deprive somebody of something by deceit
    subtypes: short, short-change - cheat someone by not returning him enough money
    same as: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize

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